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[CITE: 10USC955]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
              CHAPTER 48--MILITARY CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES
 
Sec. 955. Prisoners transferred to or from foreign countries

    (a) When a treaty is in effect between the United States and a 
foreign country providing for the transfer of convicted offenders, the 
Secretary concerned may, with the concurrence of the Attorney General, 
transfer to such foreign country any offender against chapter 47 of this 
title. Such transfer shall be effected subject to the terms of such 
treaty and chapter 306 of title 18.
    (b) Whenever the United States is party to an agreement on the 
status of forces under which the United States may request that it take 
custody of a prisoner belonging to its armed forces who is confined by 
order of a foreign court, the Secretary concerned may provide for the 
carrying out of the terms of such confinement in a military correctional 
facility of his department or in any penal or correctional institution 
under the control of the United States or which the United States may be 
allowed to use. Except as otherwise specified in such agreement, such 
person shall be treated as if he were an offender against chapter 47 of 
this title.

(Added Pub. L. 95-144, Sec. 4, Oct. 28, 1977, 91 Stat. 1221; amended 
Pub. L. 96-513, title V, Sec. 511(28), Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2922.)


                               Amendments

    1980--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 96-513 substituted ``such'' for ``said'' 
in two places, ``Such'' for ``Said'', and struck out ``, United States 
Code'' after ``18''.


                    Effective Date of 1980 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 96-513 effective Dec. 12, 1980, see section 
701(b)(3) of Pub. L. 96-513, set out as a note under section 101 of this 
title.
